"Only twenty acres of land?"

Li Buzhuo threw the accounts onto the desk and looked at Yao Zhongyu.

Yao Zhongyu bowed and said, "Although there is a lot of land beside the village, 90% of it is the land reclaimed by farmers themselves and is not owned by the winery. The land deed of Lord Kuizhao is also written very clearly."

Li Buzhuo said: "What is the profit of the business of the village for more than ten years?"

Yao Zhongyu said: "There are records on the account, and they are all stored in the house of the Yao family in Hedong County. I will send someone to the county town tomorrow. The owner will send someone to formally hand over the winery with the adults."

Li Buzhuo nodded, and did not ask, allowing Yao Zhongyu to leave.

As soon as Yao Zhongyu left, Li Buzhuo picked up the accounts and read them slightly. From fourteen years ago, the profits of the winery operating were twenty gold coins.

However, according to the clear regulations of the archives of land and land affairs, what Li Buzhuo earned should be all the profits of the winery's business, not only including the twenty acres of land in the land deed, but also the profits of the winery's purchase of grain from outside the winery also belong to Li Buzhuo.

If calculated based on 200 acres of land, the cost of purchasing grain in 14 years is 40 gold steaks, and the net profit in 14 years can be around 150 gold steaks.

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Huang Nuer bit the face towel and groaned, her face turned pale, and beads of sweat dripped from her forehead. He Qian tightened the cloth strip and said, "It's stopped the bleeding. It's not difficult to learn to hold chopsticks in your left hand, but you only have one hand left, so you can't do a lot of work."

He took off the mask from his mouth with his left hand, and Huang Nuer hissed a few times and bit his teeth tightly.

When I was forced to be a stealer by that pair of men and women, I saw many colleagues accidentally arrested, and were chopped into fingers or even beaten to death.

It's no big deal to break one hand and get out of that business.

"Where are they buried?" he asked.

"In the valley." He Qian knew what Huang Nuer was thinking and said, "When you get some energy back, you will set up a spiritual position for them. Are you blamed me?"

Huang Nuer murmured, "I don't blame you, sometimes I want to kill them..."

He Qian smiled and said, "It's okay if you blame me, but don't blame Li Buzhuo."

"I don't blame him." Huang Nuer paused, "I'll leave after taking care of the wound."

"Go? Don't go."

"Don't leave?"

"I want to kill them, but why did you choose to take action this time?" He Qian said lightly: "Li Buzhuo is the leader of the new department. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be able to enter the Heavenly Palace in the future. Being able to follow him will be good for you and me."

Huang Nuer was stunned: "Didn't you want to retire long ago?"

He Qian shook his head: "There are entanglements in places where there are people. What is the purpose of talking about seclusion? It is just to avoid the troubles I caused in the past. This Lord Li treats the maid who is accompanying him as his own. I don't think he is a domineering person to instruct him."

Huang Nuer lowered her head, her face shining brightly under the light: "But I had assassinated him, how could he believe me..."

"You are forced by someone, and if I want to harm him, there is no reason to help him escape. What's more, now there is not even a person who runs errands around him. When he comes to Jiuwenzi Village, he is completely an outsider. How easy is it to take over this Yao winery?"

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Early the next morning, Li Buzhuo came to the winery on the back of the farm.

In the three-story wooden building, the four-corner boiler furnace emits a lot of heat. The edges of the four huge barrels beside the boiler are tightly reinforced by rivets, and still a trace of steam with strong wine aroma is emitted. A brass trough that is thickly clung to each other is extended from the copper cover on the top of the barrel.

The trough extends to the height of the second floor, and then merges downwards to mix and cast a giant brass cooling trough to hang in the house.

There is a knob switch at the bottom of the cooling tank. When it is turned on, clear wine will flow out of it.

The winemaker is called Jiang Dahe, and one of the apprentices is a unique name, Jiangbianliu, and the other is a half-grown girl, which is called Jiang Jiuer.

The three of them greeted Li Buzhuo. Li Buzhuo asked them to continue brewing wine and watched with their hands behind their backs for a while.

That barrel can hold about a thousand kilograms of grain. If the grain output is only twenty acres, there is no need for the winery to make it so large.

He called Jiang Dahe to ask about the usual brewing matters. Jiang Dahe knew everything, but when asked about the yield and consumption, he hesitated.

Knowing that these people had been told, Li Buzhuo didn't ask much, and called Yao Zhongyu, the winery manager, to accompany him to go shopping in the village.

Walk down the mountain road along the dirt road outside the winery. The roadside is withered and desolate. Among the scattered houses, there are only a few families who are vaguely smoke rising in cooking.

Seeing that the grain in the valley next to the road had reached a bumper harvest, no one was able to harvest it. If this continues, it will probably rot in the fields.

Seeing this scene along the way, Li Buzhuo frowned secretly.

I was puzzled when I came to the winery last night. At this time, I finally asked, "What's going on?"

"It turns out that sir doesn't know about this." Yao Zhongyu closed his sleeves. "Recently, Hedong County heard that there was a monster disaster. Several people in the village disappeared out of thin air. The blame was that, but the people were gone, and everything else was there. When Xiaoping Village was found to be gone twenty miles away, several families had their food in the pot and the food was still hot, but there were no traces of the villagers within a radius of more than ten miles."

Li Buzhuo raised his eyebrows and turned around and asked, "Is there such a thing?"

Yao Zhongyu looked at the winery on the slope not far away and sighed: "There have been some weird things in the village recently, so all the people in the village can move away..." As he said that, he stopped talking.

"Speak straight away if you have something to do."

Yao Zhongyu pondered for a while and sighed: "It is really not a wise move for the leader to choose this winery. Now that most of the farmers in the village have left, I am afraid they will lose money in the future."

"What's wrong with it?" Li Buzhuo also looked at the winery.

Yao Zhongyu lowered his head and stared at his toes and said, "It's just a rumor that three people became tigers, but it became true in the ears of the villagers."

Yao Zhongyu avoided the important and ignored it, and Li Wuzhuo did not ask the bottom line. It was something else to call Yao Zhongyu out today.

Then he inspected the valley below the foothills along the road. Li Buzhuo asked while walking, "How long have you been working for Yao?"

"It's been more than twenty years."

"It's been more than 20 years, I've only been the manager of a country winery..." Li Buzhuo said halfway and changed the subject, "I read the accounts carefully last night."

"Sir, are you still satisfied?" Yao Zhongyu was not guilty.

"Satisfied, of course I am satisfied." Li Buzhuo suddenly stopped, "But when Jiuwenzi Village paid taxes, it was also based on twenty acres of land?"

Yao Zhongyu was slightly stunned: "What the leader means..."

Reclaiming additional wasteland in the manor is already a hidden rule for each family, and the county government's orders are also aware of this and turn a blind eye.

Li Buzhuo smiled and said, "Don't panic. I just looked at the valley. It seemed to be bigger. So I wanted to go to Hedong County to invite someone to see if it is the mu system that has been changed now or is it dazzled by me."

Yao Zhongyu's cold sweat suddenly appeared. As the leader, Li Buzhuo was still from Yong'an County, which was treated very differently from ordinary boys.

If he really exposed this to the Lingguan Office, Yao would not suffer any disaster, but there would always be someone who would be punished, and the only one who would be punished was him, the servant named Yao.

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Chapter completed!